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What warrant? Nobody is being charged with a crime. The government is just shutting down websites it wants to without any due process.
by wavephorm 15y ago
What warrant? Nobody is being charged with a crime. The government is just shutting down websites it wants to without any due process.
- GHFigs 15y agoWhat warrant? A seizure warrant, as signed by a judge. (Compare "search warrant", "arrest warrant"). Nobody is being charged with a crime. That's not what a warrant is. Warrants are issued on the basis of probable cause. You probably understand this already with regard to search warrants: a prosecutor doesn't have to have filed charges against a person before the police can obtain a search warrant in the course of investigating the crime. The police only need to show that there is cause to conduct the search. But more to the point of people not being charged: I'm not conversant in every relevant detail, but I presume the reason nobody is being charged in these cases is that the owners of these domains are unknown and outside of the US, besides. But again: nobody being charged doesn't mean warrants weren't issued for the seizures. The two are not the same thing.